Black lives matter — and systemic racism demands systemic change. Rainforest Action Network acts and speaks in solidarity against the systemic violence specifically experienced by Black people in the United…
May 29, 2020
May 27, 2020
Massachusetts State Legislators Call on Liberty Mutual to Cut Ties with Fossil Fuels
Legislators join growing campaign to push insurers to take meaningful climate action MA – Today, dozens of Massachusetts State Legislators called on Boston-based insurance company Liberty Mutual to address its role…
May 19, 2020
JPMorgan Chase Faces Unprecedented Vote Against Its Financing of Fossil Fuels
JPMorgan Chase shareholders’ revolt against Jamie Dimon and his failed record on climate change shows that days of acting as the house bank of the fossil fuel industry will have to end.
May 18, 2020
JPMorgan Chase, Under Fire From All Sides Over Fossil Financing, to Host Online AGM
World’s worst funder of climate change faces multiple shareholder resolutions, grassroots pressure.
May 13, 2020
MUFG Falls Behind Peers in New ESG Finance Policy Announcement
MUFG’s policy revisions “disappointing,” says Rainforest Action Network Japan’s largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), released a revised Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) financing policy today, but fell short…
April 23, 2020
Morgan Stanley 5th Major U.S. Bank to End Arctic Oil Financing; Bank of America Now Stands Alone
Morgan Stanley 5th Major U.S. Bank to End Arctic Oil Financing; Bank of America Now Stands Alone. The next steps are ending funding for expansion of fossil fuels and committing to phasing out all fossil finance.
April 20, 2020
Citigroup Announces New Coal Policy; Climate Advocates Respond
Rainforest Action Network, Indigenous Environmental Network and Amazon Watch issue statements San Francisco– Ahead of its 2020 Annual General Meeting, taking place tomorrow, Citigroup has published an updated version of…
April 20, 2020
SMBC Misses Critical Opportunity to be a Climate Leader
SMBC’s New Climate Policy Falls Well Short of Mizuho’s All Eyes Now on Largest Bank MUFG Tokyo – Today, Japan’s third-largest bank – Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group, TYO:…
April 16, 2020
29 Nobel Laureates Condemn Chevron Pollution in Ecuador and Demand Freedom for Human Rights Lawyer Steven Donziger
Alec Baldwin, Roger Waters, and other activists join Nobel laureates in their demand that Chevron clean up its pollution, pay court-ordered compensation, and cease the persecution of Donziger, who has…
April 16, 2020
Japan’s Third Largest Bank – SMBC Group – In Discussions To Finance New Coal Export Terminal in California Amidst Pledge to Quit Coal Power
Contact: Laurel Sutherlin, Rainforest Action Network, (415) 246-0161 laurel@ran.org Margaret Rossoff, No Coal in Oakland, (510) 459-6054 margaretmft@gmail.com Oakland, CA — Today, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group) announced…